Speaker Biographies
December 7, 2005

Makan Delrahim provides public policy, antitrust, intellectual property, and international trade counsel for Brownstein Hyatt & Farber. He is the former deputy assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, appointed by President George W. Bush in July 2003. At the Department of Justice, he also served as a member of the U.S. Attorney General’s Task Force on Intellectual Property. His principal responsibilities at the Department of Justice included serving as the administration’s point person on international antitrust issues. He also oversaw the Antitrust Division’s appellate litigation and policy development. Mr. Delrahim played key roles in the department’s enforcement and policy development on emerging matters at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property. In addition, Mr. Delrahim served as chairman of the Merger Working Group of the International Competition Network (ICN), the organization of antitrust authorities to advance global coordination and cooperation of competition law enforcement activities. In 2003, he was appointed by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) as a commissioner on the U.S. Antitrust Modernization Commission, a body created by Congress to perform a comprehensive evaluation of the antitrust laws and report to Congress and the president on its findings and to make policy and legislative recommendations. Mr. Delrahim is a frequent speaker and author on competition law and intellectual property issues. Mr. Delrahim has also served at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, working on intellectual property matters, and at the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Technology Transfers.

Robert Pitofsky is Joseph and Madeline Sheehy Professor in Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law, as well as dean emeritus, of Georgetown University Law Center. He has had a distinguished career in government and is especially known for his work in the antitrust field. He has served as a commissioner and later chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the FTC, counsel to the American Bar Association Commission to Study the FTC, and chair of a Department of Defense Task Force on downsizing the Defense Industry. In addition, he is coauthor of the text, Cases & Materials on Antitrust, and his recent writings include "New Definitions of Relevant Market and the Assault on Antitrust" (Columbia Law Review, 1990) and "Proposals for Revised Merger Enforcement in a Global Economy" (Georgetown Law Journal, 1992). Professor Pitofsky served as dean of the Georgetown Law School from 1983 to 1989, and has taught courses at the Georgetown Law Center in Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Federal Courts, and Constitutional Law. He practices law as counsel to the D.C. firm of Arnold and Porter and was an attorney with Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood. In addition, he served as a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference to the United States and the Board of Governors of the D.C. Bar Association.

Richard Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972. He has also been the Peter and Kirstin Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000. He served as interim dean of the University of Chicago Law School from February to June, 2001. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991, and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991-2001. At present he is a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics. His books include Skepticism and Freedom:  A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2003); Cases and Materials on Torts (Aspen Law & Business; 8th ed. 2004); Torts (Aspen Law & Business 1999); Principles for a Free Society:  Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good (Perseus Books, 1998);  Simple Rules for a Complex World (Harvard University Press, 1995);  Bargaining With the State (Princeton University Press, 1993); Forbidden Grounds: The Case against Employment Discrimination Laws (Harvard University Press, 1992); Takings:  Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard University Press, 1985). He has written numerous articles on a wide range of legal and interdisciplinary subjects. He has taught courses in civil procedure, communications, conflicts of laws, constitutional law, contracts, corporations, criminal law, jurisprudence, health law and policy, legal history, property, real estate development and finance, labor law, land use planning, patents, individual, estate and corporate taxation, Roman Law, torts, and workers' compensation.

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI, where he directs the Federalism Project and the Liability Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve co-founded and, from 1989 to February 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm that served as counsel in many precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.